I am not (she said, stating the obvious) a slave to fashion. I am, however, one to my timing devices. I wear an iPod Nano (the discontinued kind) mainly for its pedometer feature (which the newer models don’t have). I time my swims. I keep meticulous track of how far and how long I run, as well as my pace.

Every night before bed, I make sure my devices are charged or at least being charged. Last night was no exception. Today when I unplugged my Garmin 10 from the wall, the battery icon looked full and happy. I went outside and set it to find the GPS signal (which means I pushed a button). Almost immediately, the screen went blank.

The watch had been acting a little oddly lately, so I figured this was the culmination of that. I happened to have another older watch, a 405, that I had charged a few days earlier. So I took it out of the drawer, turned it on and…the screen went blank on that one, too. I remembered that little issue was why I didn’t use the watch any more. So I finally just tossed it in the trash.

I am not, I told myself, going to let these get in the way of my workout.

So I put switched my iPod screen to the stopwatch feature, pushed the “start” button and took off. I still kept track of my ratio of jog-to-run-to-walk workout (3 minutes-2 minutes- 1 minute) but, since I never run the same morning route, don’t know how far I went. No clue how fast, either.

When I got home, I reluctantly ordered another watch. And, yes, plan to drive my route this afternoon to see how many miles I ran.

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